Generate a embed widget on the fly!

custom video embed.js

//store the URL
var url = "http://vimeo.com/71673549";

//extract the ID
var rgx = /\/\/(www\.)?vimeo.com\/(\d+)($|\/)/;

//the ID: 71673549 
var id = url.match(rgx);	

var width = '640';
var height = '360';		

//make embed code and wrap it
var $embd = $("<div id='myEmbed'/>")
  .append('<div class="vimeo-article"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/'+id+
          '?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&badge=0&color=ffffff" width="'+width+'" height="'+height+
          '" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div>');

//write it to the page
$("body").append($embd).show();